Watter nut het seksuele seleksie om die hofmaakklanke van swart krieke (Gryllus bimaculatus) te verklaar?

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Prins, A.
Verburgt, Luke
Ferguson, Jan Willem Helenus

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This study evaluates the factors that may potentially affect the courtship songs of Gryllus bimaculatus, (including: wing morphology, male body size and the male’s current nutritional condition) and whether female crickets assess male courtship song.

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This paper was initially delivered at the Annual Congress of the Biological Sciences Division of the South African Academy for Science and Art, ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, Roodeplaat, Pretoria, South Africa on 01 October 2010.

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Seksuele seleksie, Hofmaakklanke, Sexual selection, Courtship song, Field crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus, Swart krieke

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Prins, A., Verburgt, L. & Ferguson, J.W.H., 2013, ‘Watter nut het seksuele seleksie om die hofmaakklanke van swart krieke (Gryllus bimaculatus) te verklaar?’, Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie 32(1), Art. #815, 2 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/satnt.v32i1.815